Many species of reef fishes form large spawning aggregations that are highly predictable in space and time. Prior research has suggested that aggregating fish derive fitness benefits not just from mating at high density but, also, from oceanographic features of the spatial locations where aggregations occur. Using a probabilistic biophysical model of larval dispersal coupled to a fine resolutio...

Density-dependent (DD) and density-independent (DI) habitat selection is strongly linked to a species' evolutionary history. Determining the relative importance of each is necessary because declining populations are not always the result of altered DI mechanisms but can often be the result of DD via a reduced carrying capacity. We developed spatially and temporally explicit models throughout th...

The present study quantifies the spatial heterogeneity of the environmental conditions associated with successful spawning by cod Gadus morhua in the Bornholm Basin. Quarterly means from 1989 to 2003 of the thickness of reproductive volume that enabled egg survival indicate that most favourable spawning conditions were located in the central area, inside the 80 m isobath. On average, spatial pa...

Zebrafish in our laboratory are usually bred by removing the fish from the recirculating aquatic system and placing them into 1-2 L spawning tanks. These spawning tanks consist of a bottom reservoir, a lid, and an insert that fits in closely into the bottom reservoir. When the fish breed, the eggs fall through holes of the insert and into the reservoir, thus preventing them from being cannibali...

Despite a wealth of information on sexual reproduction in scleractinian corals, there are regional gaps in reproductive records. In the Gulf of the Oman in the Arabian Sea, reproductive timing was assessed in four common species of broadcast spawning corals using field surveys of gamete maturity and aquarium observations of spawning activity. The appearance of mature gametes within the same mon...

Length and age at maturity are important life history parameters for estimating spawning stock biomass and reproductive potential of fish stocks. Bias in estimates of size and age at maturity can arise when disparate distributions of mature and immature fish within a population are not accounted for in the analysis. Here we investigate the spatial and temporal variability in observed size and a...

Environmental conditions may have previously underappreciated effects on the reproductive processes of commercially exploited fish populations, for example eastern Baltic cod, that are living at the physiological limits of their distribution. In the Baltic Sea, salinity affects neutral egg buoyancy, which is positively correlated with egg survival, as only water layers away from the oxygen cons...

In the Baltic Sea the autumn spawning herring forms a smaller number of groups than the spring herring does. This is probably connected with the different location of their spawning grounds. Spawning grounds of the spring herring are concentrated in favorable sites near the coast (in gulf, estuaries, etc.) while between such spawning centers gaps occur usually. Contrary to it, in most parts of ...

We evaluated habitat features (i.e., substrate particle size, water depth, water velocity) at spawning redds and randomly selected reference locations (where spawning activity was not apparent) to determine importance of these features to rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) spawning habitat use in the Pere Marquette River, Michigan, 1997 to 1999. Rainbow trout selected areas with small gravel, ...

This paper develops a sustainable yield harvesting model for the wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), where the population comprises different age classes. It is shown that the weight– fecundity relationship of the spawning population, comprising young and old fish, is crucial for the maximum sustainable yield fishing composition. First, the optimal harvest is found when fecundity is approximate...